Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
John, Are you talking about stuff on the Internet? At the bottom of every ibm.com page there should be a Contact link. Click on that, then click on the E-mail link. Fill out the form as best you can and please include the Web address you're complaining about. I've had very good results

SV: Linux zSeries questions

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Berg
Some opinions by Linus Torvalds regarding C++ ( ;) ): An interviws 1998: Many people ask why the kernel is written in C instead of C++. What is your point against using C++ in the kernel? What is the language you like best, excluding C? Linus: C++ would have allowed us to use certain

Re: MFNetDisk bugs and status.

2008-02-19 Thread shai hess
Thanks, That I will do. Shai. On 2/19/08, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shai, IMHO it is matter of frequency. Indeed, you inform us about your product just to often. Other folks do it as you, to mention XMITIP (Lionel), DAF (Michael), or Steve's training opportunities. However the

Re: MFNetDisk bugs and status.

2008-02-19 Thread R.S.
Shai, IMHO it is matter of frequency. Indeed, you inform us about your product just to often. Other folks do it as you, to mention XMITIP (Lionel), DAF (Michael), or Steve's training opportunities. However the frequency of their (product-rleated) posts is reasonably low. So, (it's only my

Re: Linux zSeries questions

2008-02-19 Thread Phil Smith III
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's common discourtesy to cc them, unless you know that they want two copies. I guess this is yet another netiquette issue that has no objective answer. I could cite multiple cases of lists I'm on where it's considered courtesy, but you

HTTPD Roots (was: Linux zSeries questions)

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:23:06 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: Other bits I'd take an educated guess (without inside knowledge) that are largely or entirely C and/or C++: - the IBM HTTP Server for z/OS (including the Apache-derived one shipping with WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS) Now

Re: HTTPD Roots (was: Linux zSeries questions)

2008-02-19 Thread Gray, Larry - Larry A
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LZW Compression/Expansion

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Fochtman
Good morning, all. It's 4 degrees and dead calm here in greater ChicagoLand, aka The Kingdom of Daley. Could someone point me to a fairly readable description of the LZW compression algorithm? I'm planning to unbutton ARCHIVER (CBT File 147) and will be considering the replacement of the

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:52:27 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:57:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: [RECEIVE FROMNTS proceeds without SHA-1 verification.] snip However, I have found that if SMPJHOME is absent, things work as above. If it's present but invalid, the RECEIVE fails.

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:57:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip However, I have found that if SMPJHOME is absent, things work as above. If it's present but invalid, the RECEIVE fails. Ahhh.. that sounds like the bug. I didn't think it would ever be needed for RECEIVE FROMNTS

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread R.S.
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Hi If someone can tell me the price of a CPU second in a larger z/OS system (we discuss currently if 0.5% CPU usage is relevant or not ) 100$. Justification: none. vbg But seriously: it strongly depends. You cannot say any reasonable answer without providing many

Re: ATL drive allocation problem.

2008-02-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Why would esoterics have any effect? Once an allocation is SMS managed esoterics have no bearing, unless I am missing something? Esoterics may have an effect, depending on your ACS routines. The last shop I worked at keyed off the esoteric to generate storage and management classes. - Too

Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi If someone can tell me the price of a CPU second in a larger z/OS system (we discuss currently if 0.5% CPU usage is relevant or not ) -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Info:

Re: ATL drive allocation problem.

2008-02-19 Thread Scott Rowe
Why would esoterics have any effect? Once an allocation is SMS managed esoterics have no bearing, unless I am missing something? Thomas H Puddicombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/18/2008 2:32 PM Dumb question you've already checked: is the appropriate esoteric defined with the correct address range?

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:52:27 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:57:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: snip However, I have found that if SMPJHOME is absent, things work as above. If it's present but invalid, the RECEIVE fails. Ahhh.. that sounds like the bug. I didn't think it would

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If someone can tell me the price of a CPU second in a larger z/OS system Unfortunately, that is a loaded question. You have to have a basis on which to answer that question. 1. Do you count just CPU 2. Do you add in software costs 3. Do you add in staffing costs (and which ones) 4. What other

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Rusty Swift
We have noticed it being almost unusable. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cal McCracken Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM contact for documentation servers? IBM recently

Re: SPAM: Re: COMPRESS QUESTION

2008-02-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/18/2008 at 04:26 PM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's always best to consider the audience; I got into the habit of referring to the 256-byte data portion of the actual record as the directory block, ignoring the key and count portions, when talking to

Re: Interesting ibm about the myths of the Mainframe

2008-02-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/18/2008 at 09:12 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Fine. Pehaps it's time for IBM to functionally stabilize ISPF and TSO (if not done already) If they want to damage the viability of the platform. and provide HTTP alternatives to the essential services:

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Cal McCracken
IBM recently (a couple of weeks ago) implemented a slightly new look to the z/OS bookshelves (eg, http://www- 03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zshelves9.html). Since then, the response time to list a bookshelf and/or open a specific book is so slow that it has become almost unusable. Anyone

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Well, actually you can purchase a fraction of a CPU. The z9 BC, z890, and z800 all have many settings for their CPU speed. But, on the larger processors you can't do that. You can't add one CPU at half the speed of the others - they all have to be the same speed. Eric R.S. [EMAIL

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:08:06 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:52:27 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:57:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: snip However, I have found that if SMPJHOME is absent, things work as above. If it's present but invalid,

Re: ATL drive allocation problem.

2008-02-19 Thread Scott Rowe
True, but that would have no effect on the problem being discussed, since it does not matter if the esoteric is defined to any devices at all, let alone all the affected devices. You can code a non-existent esoteric in JCL without any errors, as long as the allocation winds up being SMS

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:52:49 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why should it care and try to start GIMJVCLT if it is not needed. It should be no different than adding an //BSDD to IEBGENER. It's different. Some products properly make judgments based on the presence of

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Ron Hawkins
Miklos, If the MF and peripherals were purchased to service a single application then 0.5% usage would not matter. The whole CAPEX could be charged to that application and that would be it. This is the model that applies to most small server farms. Even for larger UNIX servers the resources

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:30:03 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: For me this more or less clear. I have here a number of collegues from NT and Unix , and they don't understand why the 0.5% CPU time is a matter: I see. I suppose they also don't have any idea how MVS can run all day long at 100%

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cal McCracken IBM recently (a couple of weeks ago) implemented a slightly new look to the z/OS bookshelves (eg, http://www- 03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zshelves9.html). Since then, the response time to

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Price of CPU seconds Hi If someone can tell me the price of a CPU second in a larger z/OS system (we

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi For me this more or less clear. I have here a number of collegues from NT and Unix , and they don't understand why the 0.5% CPU time is a matter: /Would somebody knowledgeable please explain to me why some host people get their panties in a knot (I love colorful expressions!) over a

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:30:03 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: For me this more or less clear. I have here a number of collegues from NT and Unix , and they don't understand why the 0.5% CPU time is a matter: /Would somebody knowledgeable please explain to me why some host people get their

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miklos Szigetvari) writes: If someone can tell me the price of a CPU second in a larger z/OS system (we discuss currently if 0.5% CPU usage

Re: SPAM: Re: COMPRESS QUESTION

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- It's always best to consider the audience; I got into the habit of referring to the 256-byte data portion of the actual record as the directory block, ignoring the key and count portions, when talking to application folks. Doesn't that confuse

Re: SYSLOG/OPERLOG Time Stamps

2008-02-19 Thread Looper, Brent E
Lizette, You could start an automatic command to do a D T (Display Time) every 30 seconds for a day or two. That would let you know whether you have a problem without too much additional log output. Brent Looper UAMS I have a fairly active system. Stuff going on all the time. But

Re: LZW Compression/Expansion

2008-02-19 Thread Big Iron
How about http://marknelson.us/1989/10/01/lzw-data-compression/ ? Bill On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:11:36 -0600, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, all. It's 4 degrees and dead calm here in greater ChicagoLand, aka The Kingdom of Daley. Could someone point me to a fairly readable

Re: SPAM: Re: COMPRESS QUESTION

2008-02-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/18/2008 at 04:33 PM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The meaning of the word size depends on whether you mean in virtual storage or stored on a disk track. That's an additional complication; I was not taking gaps into account. In virtual

Re: Need TSO ISPF short cut commands

2008-02-19 Thread Howard Brazee
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:01:21 -0800 (PST), BillD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howard, what do you mean by UMS shop? Is that an IBM or third-party product? For what? It's the name of my shop (University Management Systems). Your shop would have a different prefix in its naming convention. If you

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:38:02 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:08:06 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: If he had opened a PMR (he still can) this can get fixed. Is Kurt Q. listening? He will be. But why should it care and try to start GIMJVCLT if it is not needed. It should be no

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Cal McCracken
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:50:34 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received an offlist note from an IBMer yesterday who said that the folks in Boulder would look into it. -jc- Thanks. Comforting to know someone is checking into it.

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Zelden
Paul, You wrote me off-list and I tried to reply, but I get the error below. I actually tried to write you a week or 2 ago offlist about that NFS thing but got the same errors. Do you have an address that works (write me off-list). Delivery Report Failure

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Price of CPU seconds Hi For me this more or less clear. I have here a number of collegues

Re: Linux zSeries questions

2008-02-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/18/2008 at 01:09 PM, Mark S. Waterbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: BSL was the first version of IBM's internal HLL for systems programming. BSL is to PL/S as PL/S is to PL/X. Correct. AFAIK, OS/360 PCP, MFT and MVT were developed almost entirely in BAL. ITYM

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Robertson
Last year we found ourselves CPU constrained at peak hour and undertook a series of initiatives to save it. The metric we used to decide whether a particular initiative was worth taking - which did not pretend to be other than a very rough guide - was 1p (0.01 pounds UK) per CPU second.

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Howard Brazee
I don't even know the price of CPU firsts. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cal McCracken Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM contact for documentation servers? IBM recently (a couple of weeks ago) implemented a slightly new

Re: HTTPD Roots (was: Linux zSeries questions)

2008-02-19 Thread R.S.
Paul Gilmartin wrote: [...] Now I'm confused. I've seen flat denials among these lists from IBM employees that IBM's HTTPD is Apache-derived. But which HTTPD? So: o How many HTTP servers does IBM supply for z/OS? AFAIK two or three. IMWEB which is part of z/OS base WAS (websphere) which

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Pat Mihalec
Why don't you just download it to a text file and print that. Pat Mihalec Rush University Medical Center Senior System Programmer (312) 942-8386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 02/19/2008 11:56 AM Please respond to

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Ron Wells
MacKinney -- JQP Lionel Dyck's LPRPRINT -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged information. This information is intended only for the

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Gerhard Adam
You're not going to have that overhead for only one day. 0.5% of a $10 Million computer is $50,000. Of course, that ignores software costs and the other things that have been mentioned. To think only of CPU seconds trivializes it. Unfortunately these kinds of calculations are not only

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:52:43 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: Paul, You wrote me off-list and I tried to reply, but I get the error below. I actually tried to write you a week or 2 ago offlist about that NFS thing but got the same errors. Do you have an address that works (write me off-list). I

CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Schuster
Hello: I have a situation where some load modules in a LINKLIST library were changed. I do not know if an LLA refresh was done. When CSVDYLPA REQUEST=ADD,DCBPTR=CVTLINK attempts to load one of these modules, it encounters this error: IEW4009I FETCH FAILED FOR MODULE xxx FROM DDNAME

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Hello: I have a need on occasion to download stuff (listings or source) and print on a locally attached PC printer. Does anyone know of software (free or otherwise) that can do such a thing? FTP?

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Emily A. Rambo
I haven't tried it yet, but I found the following from Dave Alcock when I was looking for something to help with post-processing of SMP/e hold data (which I did use from his page). It says it works for most HP PCL printers, links you to Lionel Dyck's print package for postscript .

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Gates, Guy
We use MacKinney Systems JQP. Works Great, Reasonably Priced. Thanks...Guy M. Gates Jr. TTI Z/OS Systems Programmer II -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:56 AM To:

mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Schuster
Hello: I have a need on occasion to download stuff (listings or source) and print on a locally attached PC printer. Does anyone know of software (free or otherwise) that can do such a thing? Thank you. Paul -- For

WSA - Question

2008-02-19 Thread Stocker, Herman
G'day, I'm able to transfer files from the mainframe to the WS one at a time. I have not been able to transfer a file from the PC back to the mainframe. Where/what are the manuals that will give some information on WSA? The error I'm getting is: ISRZ003 An error occurred while transferring

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread John P Kalinich
Paul Schuster of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 02/19/2008 11:56:01 AM: Hello: I have a need on occasion to download stuff (listings or source) and print on a locally attached PC printer. Does anyone know of software (free or otherwise) that can do such a

SMP/E GIMCPTS Downward Compatibility

2008-02-19 Thread Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Someone in-house wrote me (on an address that works): * Today they pick up the PTFs from the SMPPTS within engineering environments ... .This is apparently not guaranteed to work, because the PTFs are compressed on SMPPTS but the compression can be SMP/E level

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Wickman
We use the IBM NPF (network print facility) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Mike Wickman Technical Services Phone 913-236-1663 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Jack Kelly
I have a need on occasion to download stuff (listings or source) and print on a locally attached PC printer. Does anyone know of software (free or otherwise) that can do such a thing? If it's infrequently, I use the cheap method, ie download/ftp the file to my PC as a *.txt file and then

Re: Catch-22 question on SMP/E receive fromnts command

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:22:53 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:52:43 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: Paul, You wrote me off-list and I tried to reply, but I get the error below. I actually tried to write you a week or 2 ago offlist about that NFS thing but got the

Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-19 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
After the modules were updated but before any refresh or compress, LLA would still have the old TTRs. A load would successfully fetch the old module. If a compress was done, then a refresh is essential since the updated modules and any that followed them in the PDS would have new TTRs. Without

Re: SMP/E GIMCPTS Downward Compatibility

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:32:37 -0600, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it more likely that there's a level sensitivity, that the other system is entirely compaction-naive (how far down must that be?) OS/390 2.5 introduced compaction for the SMPPTS. IIRC there were PTFs to allow

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Stocker, Herman
Look into XMITIP from Lionel Dyck at http://www.lbdsoftware.com/ The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. By reading the

Re: WSA - Question

2008-02-19 Thread Dave Salt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm able to transfer files from the mainframe to the WS one at a time. You should be able to transfer many mainframe files in one go rather than just one at a time. If you go into ISPF option 3.7.2 and bring up a member list, you should be able to go down the list and

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Dean Montevago
Ditto !! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gates, Guy Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: mvs output on pc printer We use MacKinney Systems JQP. Works Great, Reasonably Priced.

Re: SMP/E GIMCPTS Downward Compatibility

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:43:55 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:32:37 -0600, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it more likely that there's a level sensitivity, that the other system is entirely compaction-naive (how far down must that be?) OS/390

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:49:40 -0800, Gerhard Adam wrote: You're not going to have that overhead for only one day. 0.5% of a $10 Million computer is $50,000. ... This simple example is based on the notion of the computer costing $10,000,000 every day. No, it isn't. It's based upon the total

Re: SPAM: Re: COMPRESS QUESTION

2008-02-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:06:13 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote: In the last shop I was in, all but one member of the application staff considered it was beneath them to define their own PDS datasets. They'd just send a request to systems staff, and management said we had to do it, period. I'd guess

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Dave Salt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello: I have a need on occasion to download stuff (listings or source) and print on a locally attached PC printer. Does anyone know of software (free or otherwise) that can do such a thing? Hi Paul, SimpList will do exactly what you want. All you have to do is

Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I do not know if an LLA refresh was done. When CSVDYLPA REQUEST=ADD,DCBPTR=CVTLINK attempts to load one of these modules, it encounters this error: IEW4009I FETC ... Have somebody do the refresh. It's not an outage, and you will be performing fewer unnatural acts. - Too busy driving to

Re: SPAM: Re: COMPRESS QUESTION

2008-02-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
In this case, an auditor would be your friend. No. A compliance officer. SME: Sets standards with help from compliance. Auditor: Reports on how much/little is complied with. Compliance: Enforces standards and ensures deviations are rectified. Auditors should have no enforcement authority. -

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Adam Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Price of CPU seconds SNIP One of the other examples uses $0.22/second which results in nearly

A Blank DSORG

2008-02-19 Thread Darth Keller
I've got a dataset allocated with the following JCL: 41 //OUTLOAN DD DSN=T.PM.CWSCW02M.CWSBCWI1.DMLOAN.PRECODE1, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG), // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=205,BLKSIZE=0), // SPACE=(CYL,(9000,500),RLSE), // STORCLAS=SCTEST,

Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:29:32 -0600, Paul Schuster wrote: Hello: I have a situation where some load modules in a LINKLIST library were changed. I do not know if an LLA refresh was done. When CSVDYLPA REQUEST=ADD,DCBPTR=CVTLINK attempts to load one of these modules, it encounters this error:

OpenSolaris on System Z live at SHARE in Orlando

2008-02-19 Thread David Boyes
For those of you who have been following the saga of bringing OpenSolaris to System Z, I'm pleased to say that those of you coming to SHARE in Orlando will get a chance to get your hands on it live. IBM has allowed us to put a few copies of the virtual machine on the z9 in their booth, and we'll

Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Schuster
Well, it is not me. I just want to protect my application by still allowing it to be installed if an error is detected by CSVDYLPA. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Leo Smith
publibz is working now Leo Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] TERCOMM.COM

Re: SPAM: Re: COMPRESS QUESTION

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip-- In the last shop I was in, all but one member of the application staff considered it was beneath them to define their own PDS datasets. They'd just send a request to systems staff, and management said we had to do it, period. I'd guess

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread George Sackett
Is your printer attached to the PC or network attached? If it is network attached can you print to it using TCP/IP ? If the printer is using TCP/IP on a LAN and you are running TCP/IP on the mainframe as well you can use LPD/LPR functions to send printout to the IP printer directly. Regards,

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Comstock
Leo Smith wrote: publibz is working now Leo Thanks for letting us know. Just out of curiousity, what was causing the problem? Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com z/OS Application development made easier * Our classes

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is your printer attached to the PC or network attached? If it is network attached can you print to it using TCP/IP ? If the printer is using TCP/IP on a LAN and you are running TCP/IP on the mainframe as well you can use LPD/LPR functions to send printout to the IP printer directly. I think

Re: IBM contact for documentation servers?

2008-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Leo Smith publibz is working now Sure is! Thanks kindly. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: CSVDYLPA DCBPTR=CVTLINK

2008-02-19 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 02/19/2008 03:42:18 PM: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:29:32 -0600, Paul Schuster wrote: Hello: I have a situation where some load modules in a LINKLIST library were changed. I do not know if an LLA refresh was done. When CSVDYLPA

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Gerhard Adam
You're not going to have that overhead for only one day. 0.5% of a $10 Million computer is $50,000. ... This simple example is based on the notion of the computer costing $10,000,000 every day. No, it isn't. It's based upon the total life cost and assumes that the processor is kept until

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Bui
We use NPF (the IBM freebee) to lpr output to user's pc. Users pc will have to be set up with Unix print services and firewall opened to allow lpr/lpd. ---steveBui, 480-965-3070 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Gerhard Adam
That example stated that $800 per CPU/hr was the cost for a machine (undefined as to number of CPUs, MSUs, etc.). It also did not state what the system software cost, etc. It was a number used to give an example. And it was about what the cost was for an Amdahl 5990-1400 w/ 2 Gig C-Store and 2

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Falcone
Probably due to the fact that the NT Unix guys get another box when they ask for one without much questioning. You're dealing with with single application/single server mentality. I did a tuning exercise of a Domino Change Management application (non mail server application) running on

Re: mvs output on pc printer

2008-02-19 Thread Gerry Palmer
At 12:56 PM 2/19/2008, you wrote: Hello: I have a need on occasion to download stuff (listings or source) and print on a locally attached PC printer. Does anyone know of software (free or otherwise) that can do such a thing? If you need to do this with any frequency you'll probably want to

Determining CPIH (Pipeline Management) Metrics for a Message/Transaction

2008-02-19 Thread John Baxter
Greetings: Some of my colleagues are investigating, from an architecture point-of-view, how best to use CICS Web services to provide customer access to our 2-tiered CICS-DB2 application on z/OS. For each scenario that they investigate, as much detail on resource consumption is required. Where I

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Steve Thompson writes: Price of CPU is determined by cost of processor (the whole box), all the software that runs on it, all the power to run the system (CEC, RAID, ATL, etc.), and then costs of personnel to run the system. With you so far. That's called total price, assuming you've got all the

Re: HTTPD Roots (was: Linux zSeries questions)

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 8:37 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Now I'm confused. I've seen flat denials among these lists from IBM employees that IBM's HTTPD is Apache-derived. But which HTTPD? So: o How many HTTP servers does IBM supply